The president of the Government , Pedro Sánchez, has denied this afternoon in the Senate that he sent the Minister of Transportation, José Luis Ábalos, to Barajas to prevent the Vice President of the Executive of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, from entering Spain because of the sanctions of the European Union that weighed against it. Sanchez, which premiered in the control session to the Government in the Lower House, has discharged in Ábalos all the responsibility of his meeting with the number two of Nicolás Maduro.

The spokesman of the Popular Group , Javier Maroto, has asked him if he was the one who ordered his minister to appear the morning of January 20 at the airport and although there has been no direct response, the President of the Government has explained that Rodriguez was heading in private flight to Madrid and that in this situation one could act in two ways. One, to generate a diplomatic crisis with a Government that, apart from everyone's considerations, has said, "it has the representation of its country before international organizations and 180 countries of the world". And, the second way, to comply with EU resolutions against Delcy Rodríguez for not respecting human rights, was to avoid this crisis. According to Sánchez, "Mr. Ábalos considered with my best judgment that" the second way was preferable. " "Between forcing or avoiding a diplomatic crisis, he chose the latter," he reiterated.

The head of the Executive has thus removed himself from the middle in this matter, he continues to persecute the Government and Ábalos for the lack of explanations that have been given, because first what happened was denied and then different versions have been given, despite the fact that within the PSOE itself and in political circles it was managed that only Sanchez could send it to Barajas to convince the vice president of Maduro that he could not sleep in a Madrid hotel next to the rest of his crew, as he intended. In fact, although Ábalos even said that he had gone (in an interview in La Razón ) because he had been asked by Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska to this version within the PSOE and the Government was never given credit because he did not it was argued that Marlaska lacks sufficient command to give any instruction from Ábalos, one of the president's trusted men.

Sanchez's response has caused a bitter confrontation with Maroto who has accused him of "lying" without becoming "red." "The lie is the worst quality of a politician, even above inefficiency," said the popular spokesman.

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  • Nicolás Maduro
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  • Fernando Grande-Marlaska

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